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enA Walkthrough of 'Total Walkthrough'http://jacket2.org/commentary/walkthrough-total-walkthrough
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<h3 class="subtitle">With Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford</h3> </div>
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<figure><img src="http://jacket2.org/sites/jacket2.org/files/imagecache/wide_main_column/Alejandro banner.jpg" alt="" title="reading at Penn Book Center; making poetic wallpaper at 319 Scholes " class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column" /><figcaption>reading at Penn Book Center; making poetic wallpaper at 319 Scholes </figcaption></figure> </div>
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<p>Alejandro Crawford practices poetry at one of its most experimental edges, where it crosses with and benefits from the special capacities of computing. Crawford has done impressive work already in both fields; in 2007 he won a Fulbright and moved to Lisbon, Portugal where he had been commissioned to perform his operation “transmutilation” working, in part, with&nbsp;<em>Orpheu</em>, the magazine published by Fernando Pessoa and friends. Crawford’s radically recut remix based in part on poems from <em>Orpheu</em> is titled <em>Morpheu </em>(BlazeVox 2010). In 2009 Crawford moved to NYC to study in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU Tisch. His ongoing work with electronic communications media has expanded his arsenal of poetic technique to include things like video and sound-mixing and the reappropriation of video game hardware to run text-manipulating algorithms. But what he does is not only technically cutting edge, it's weird and funny and fun.</p>
<p><a href="http://jacket2.org/commentary/walkthrough-total-walkthrough" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Alejandro CrawfordalgorithmChris SylvestercodeTue, 19 Feb 2013 21:24:31 +0000kristeng7960 at http://jacket2.org